David Haye may fight again but has ruled out taking Anthony Joshua.
‘The Hayemaker’ won world titles in the cruiserweight division before stepping up to boxing’s marquee division.
There he successfully claimed the WBA heavyweight title against the giant Nikolai Valuev in 2009.
He defended the belt twice against the ageing John Ruiz and Audley Harrison in two mismatches before losing the title in his huge clash with Wladimir Klitschko in an absolute stinker of a fight.
Haye then beat up Derek Chisora twice, once at a press conference and then the second time at Upton Park in 2012.
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He then seemingly retired and wasn’t seen before Haye 2.0 emerged nearly four years later when he easily beat Mark De Mori and Arnold Gjergjaj.
Haye was then beaten by Tony Bellew twice and it looked like the injuries had caught up with him again.
Since then he has boxed his long time friend Joe Fouernier in an exhibition bout but, speaking to William Hill’s Up Front he refused to rule out a sensational return to the ring once again.
“It’s not fully closed. If I can get my lower legs to do what I know they can do, which they weren’t able to do for probably since 2016.
“If my lower legs can do things I need them to do, I could beat a lot of the guys out there now in the heavyweight division.”
Haye continued: “I’m not so stupid to think after all these years I can just jump in against Anthony Joshua or any of those guys, I’d get squashed.
“But if I can go through training camps – I’m being 100 per cent serious – if I could and this is a hypothetical.
“If I could go through training camps, I couldn’t do a 12-round fight camp physically impossible right now my body would just break down.
“But I could do a camp for a six-rounder or an eight-rounder for a certain type of opponent.”
